Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-17
WASHINGTON.
Members Of the Society Devoted 10 Our
Shipping and Commercial In
terests to Meet.
Tho Work OF Congress this Week-Tho
House Will Take Up the Interstate
Commerce Bill.
THE SHIPPING LEAGUE.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.-The national
convention OF the American Shipping and
Industrial League will assemble in the
city on Tuesday, January Is. Delegates
to the number Of 200, representing every
state and territory in the Union
are expected to be present. The address
of welcome will be deliver
ed by District Commissioner Webb
and the formal proceedings will be open
ed by an address of encouragement from
Gen. Joseph Wheeler of Alabama. On
Wednesday evening there will be held
public meeting at which addresses will
be delivered by Senators Evarts, Eustis,
Dolph, VOORHEES, and others.
THE WEEK IN CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON, Jan. l6-The unfinished
business. OF the senate is the bill providing
for the creation of agricultural expert
ment stations. This measure and the bill
prohibiting members of congress from
to consume most of the time of the SEN
and to secret sessions during the coming
week. The army and pension appropris-
ton bills are on the calendar ready for
the consideration Of the senate, and the
sundry civil bill is expected to
be brought out of committee IN
session for action before the end
of the week. The executive calendar OF
nominations reported from the commit
tee is said to be long one, but it is
thought that few of the cases will pro-
woke discussion. The conference report
upon the electoral-count bill which is
likely to be brought up for action Monday
or Tuesday will probably not consume
much time.
The first business before the house to-
morrow will be Townshend's motion to
pass a bill 20 limit the jurisdiction of
United Siotes courts in patent cases and
protect Innocent purchasers of patents,
which WAS under discussion when the
house adjourned on last commute ''sus
pension DAY." When this motion is dis
posed of Chairman Watson, in behalf of
the invalid pension committee, will move
TO suspend the rules and pass bill for tins
relief OF dependent parents Of hon
Orab!y discharged soldiers and sail
ors who are now disabled and
dependent. If opportunity offers to-
morrow Mr.. Eldridge will also request
the house under suspension of rules to
pass the Mexican pension bill. In the
morning hour of Tuesday the committee
on Pacific railroads intend to call up for
action the resolution providing for
the investigation of the hooks of the
Pacific railroad companies. It is proba-
ole that the house will also be asked to
act upon the conference report of the
commerce bill on the same
day. When these matters are disposed
of there will be q struggle for
the floor between the river and
hsrbor committee with it's appropriation
bill, the agricultural committee seeking
for the pleuro- pneumonia
bill, the naval committee which will press
the bill for reorganization of naval
bureaus and the ciflc Railroad COM
mittee In charge of the funding bill. The
postotfice appropriation bill will be re-
ported to the house early in the week and !
may be placed in antRgonism with the |
measures already referred to-